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Teaching how to analyse large volumes of secondary qualitative data: Pedagogy for Big Qual Methods. An ESRC National Centre for Research Methods workshop

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Workshops
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Monday 8 October 2018, 10:30 - 16:00
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National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), Society Building, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL
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Free to attend. Lunch and refreshments are included.

Contact: Dr Sarah Lewthwaite s.e.lewthwaite@soton.ac.uk

Join us for an exciting workshop that will develop your research methods teaching knowledge and skills, and explore the teaching and learning challenges that are specific to working with qualitative data at scale.

Working with qualitative secondary data is a growing research skills requirement supported by UKRI. In this session, discover cutting-edge pedagogic analyses with applications across the teaching of archival research, social media research, secondary analytic practice and other research arenas in which large amounts of diverse qualitative data must be brought together and analysed. This day course provides evidence-based foundations for developing your own pedagogic approach. Drawing together research from the Pedagogy of Methodological Learning project and new teaching practices for innovative Breadth and Depth methods – methods that bring together multiple sets of data from different sources – you will explore approaches to teaching and learning, and how these can be applied for students and professional learners who are seeking to bring together assemblages of qualitative data at scale. Through talks, activities and discussion with researchers and exper ts from the National Centre for Research Methods and Timescapes Archive, this collaborative workshop will identify the potentials and pitfalls of developing pedagogy and methodology together. It will be of particular relevance to methods teachers who teach secondary data analysis, social media methods, archival research and Big Qual methods.

This workshop will be an opportunity to come together to engage with the research into methods teaching and to engage and develop teaching approaches to meet the demands of working with large-scale secondary, archival datasets from a qualitative viewpoint.

Help us to develop innovative teaching for this new method, whilst gaining useful insights into your own practice. We invite teachers of methods, specifically in the fields of qualitative data analysis, with an interest in secondary qualitative data analysis, archival research and Big Qual analysis (qualitative analysis at scale) to join us for this workshop to establish a learning community and identify and develop teaching knowledge that bridges these methods and methodologies.

This event is for both invited participants and those who submit an expression of interest. To participate, please send an expression of interest to Sarah Lewthwaite s.e.lewthwaite@soton.ac.uk outlining your interest in the event. Places are limited, so please respond early to reserve your place. The deadline for expressions of interest is Friday 21st September 2018. Speakers include:

Prof Melanie Nind is a Professor of Education and co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton.  She is co-editor of the International Journal of Research & Method in Education and editor of the Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education book series.

Prof Lynn Jamieson is a Professor in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships and leads the research strand of NCRM at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Kahryn Hughes is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Leeds, where she is the Director of the Timescapes Archive and co-Director of the Centre for research on Families, Lifecourse and Generations.

Dr Sarah Lewthwaite is a Research Fellow at the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton. She works on the pedagogy of advanced and innovative research methods.

Prof Rosalind Edwards is a Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Director of Research and co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton.  She is a founding and co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and has published widely on qualitative and mixed methods research.

Dr Susie Weller is a Senior Research Fellow in the National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton. Her expertise includes creative, participatory, and qualitative longitudinal methods and secondary analytic practice.